The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1887-10-06

Who Lfedf
Radelif & Martin, candidates be
fore the Republican convention foi
Register Of Deeds, and their heueh-
men have been crying aloud since
Saturday that the JOURNAL LIED
when it said that Register Martin
charged three dollars and forty cent?
for recording q single-fsce deed. The
Herald very promptly ''nailed US 70
the cross" with the headline
Another Of SIMPSONS Lies." As
an alleged Democratic paper Demo
Gratis have inquired. 'What has the
Herald got 10 do with this Republi-
can fight any how 49, II Is a peril
nent inquiry. We may he Pardoned
for asking another question; Il it
not 3 strange sight to witness Rad
cliff & Martin using the Herald as
an organ? We prove below that we
did not lie. The JOURNAL may make
mistakes, but &c never lies. II has
not lied I'm this instance. Having
told the truth, We may now say,
ale laughs best who laughs last. F"
We laugh in the interest Of truth.
The same evening following Fri
days publication OF the 1910 item,
e. 5. Radclif and &. :. Martin re-
quested and received the name Of
Maxwell Phillips ~ the person filing
the deed for record. The name Of
NJ. NJ. Briggs was not mentioned in
that connection, but by way Of ex-
PLANTATION We will now say that at
the request Of Mr.. Phillips, ne at
tended TO having the deed recorded
aud paid the $40. Hence, il was
shat Radcliffe Martin. cO-esndidates
for Register Of Deeds, at once posted
to Mr.. Briggs and under certain rep
reservations secured from him a
statement for publication. Mr..
Briggs Is an honorable man who act
ed in the capacity Of a friend. and
when he says there were nineteen
lots instead Of ticeire at the limit as
there was, or FIVE single descriptions,
tO-wit: -Four lots and one single
block lOf eight LOTS he relied upon
the word Of e. ). Martin. rs he he
lieved him to be a truthful man.
Mr.. Briggs statement is as follows:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
A statement was made in yester-
days JOURNAL that the Register,
c. s. Martin, had charged a party
IS. 40 for recording a deed and the
name given you was that of Max
well Phillips but that ] as his agent
paid you the money. | paid $40
for recording the deed. The deed in
its description gave - lots and the
law allows the Register 10 cents
lot for indexing them, and the COun-
ty Clerk 5 cents each $40 was charg-
ed for indeXing them, when the law
allows $3.50 and the Register charg-
eel me 81 20 for recording the dOcu-
ment. This is the way IcOnIeto pay
the $3. 40 fees for recording the deed
NJ. NJ. BRIGGS.
We quote from the deed itself she
word for word, figure
for figure, capital letter for capital
letter, etc, as follows:
"BlOck number Five l5) and lots
One ID, Two o., Three Il
and Sixteen llG) i'm Block number
three 30, GlennifIer Hill addition,
TO the city of Salina, i'm SAID county,
Ia the plat of said addi-
tiOn, now on file and Of record in the
office OF the Register Of Deeds Of
said county"
The block described Above Is a sin-
gle description. Add that to the
four lots and you have fre descrip-
iiOns-at ten cents each we have the
legal fee Of 6fty cent?, aud
the difference between 81 cents and
IS. 40 is $3.50. Extract - cents for
the County Clerk wiz: cents for
each description and Mr.. Register
of Deeds collected $2.65 for the deed
itself!
Radcliff & Mastin cause Mr.. Briggs
TO state that nineteen lots were eni-
braced for indexing! As there but
lots I'm the block Is in Glennilier
Hill Addition there could not by
any possibility be to exceed twelve
lots! Here is an excess of seven lots
1t the uttermOst which in itself is
los too much. But a description is
4 description. \ lot ten feet square is
4 description; a quarter section Of
and is a description; an undivided
section of land is recognized by the
government a. description, and "A
printer publishing even the latter
Tor delinquent taxes can collect hut
twenty-five cents under the laws Of
Kansas for such service. But ME
personally appeals to-day to
Mr.. Phillips saying, at was n mis-
AXE. 1 counted up the lots in anoth-
n tract" This Is from "the most
Register Of Deeds Saline
,Ounty ever had!"
What about his other high
charges! When he went into the Of
ice he at once raised the fees Of his
Mr.. Martin has said, and Mr..
Briggs says for him, Il charge 500
or the recording Of a deed" That is
What he does charge. We have TAX
m the pains to count every word
md initial in this deed filed for
Maxwell Phillips and we find there
IA words and initials contained all
old on that single page. The limit
8 25 cents for each folio Of 100 words
md ten cents for each additional 100 |
words. Four hundred and fourteen
words cannot amount To over 20
,ents. And the deed contains more
han an ordinary deed. Does not |
he presumption follow that during |
:. S. Martins incumbency a deed |
las not been recorded for which
here was not an Overcharge |
Is there any wonder that the Office
las paid 1900 above expenses dur
ng the past year as Is claimed.
The deed was a simple conveyance
Il land from Maxwell Phillips to
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